Happy #EarthDay 🌍 To celebrate, we are spotlighting our student, Enzo Porto, about his organization, Oceanica. 🌊 From beach clean-ups to surf simulations, Oceanica is empowering Peru’s youth to protect the ocean. 🔗 Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/beach

N. Asokan has been named a University Professor, a prestigious honour conferred by Waterloo to recognize scholarly achievement and international pre-eminence. His work has shaped theory and practice, leading to widely deployed technologies and new research directions: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/univers...

💉 #UWaterloo-based company Rapid Novor created EasyM: a non-invasive and highly sensitive blood-based test for myeloma. 🩸EasyM is more effective and less painful than the current standard of care, bone marrow biopsy. 🔗 Read more at: uwaterloo.ca/news/diagnos...

🏆 A #UWaterloo team won the Social Impact Award at CUCAI 2026, Canada's largest undergrad AI conference. 🤖 The team was recognized for their novel blood sugar forecasting technology 📈 🔗 Read more at: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/ai-diab...

Congrats to CS PhD alum Ricardo Baeza-Yates on receiving the 2025 ACM Luiz André Barroso Award, which recognizes his pioneering contributions to algorithms and information retrieval, and his leadership in fostering a vibrant research community across Latin America: awards.acm.org/about/2025-b...

Congratulations to Professor Matei Zaharia of UC Berkeley, recipient of the 2025 ACM Prize in Computing. He is a graduate from Waterloo, where he earned a Bachelor of Mathematics in 2007 with a double major in Computer Science and Combinatorics & Optimization. awards.acm.org/acm-prize

🪿 Anirudh Dabas built Waddleloo, an AI-powered platform that shows goose sightings on #UWaterloo and #Laurier campuses. ⭐ He hopes Waddleloo inspires students to leverage technology to tackle everyday problems, even the minor inconveniences. 🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...

🤖How will AI impact the future of computer scientists? ⭐ Many #UWaterloo students and alumni believe that #AI presents opportunities, not threats. They also believe it cannot replace human judgment. 🔗 Read more at: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/waterlo...

AI is reshaping litigation and CS Research Prof Maura R. Grossman is leading efforts to help courts assess whether digital evidence is real or fake, focusing on explainability, not just simple binary answers so courts can decide what weight to give evidence: www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/opinion...

CIBC is supporting AI research at Waterloo for the first time with a $50k grant. The sponsorship supports William Loh's research on advancing representation learning for complex tabular data, while helping grow national AI talent for the financial sector and beyond: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cibc-fu...

🪳A new AI tool can automate bug reproduction tests, saving developers hours of manual work and speeding up software fixes. 🤖 The tool, Assertflip, can outperform most open-sourced BRT tools. 🔗 Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/new-ai-... #UWaterloo #cybersecurity

Dr. Ronald Mullin, the first graduate of the University of Waterloo and a pioneering member of the Faculty of Mathematics, passed away peacefully on Friday, March 6th, 2026, in Cambridge, Ontario. He was 89. Read more about Dr. Mullin's life here: uwaterloo.ca/math/news/me...

Congratulations to Kevin Guo (4B CS), Kai Wen (Kevin) Yang (4A CS) and Kelly Dance (C&O MMath candidate), silver medallists at 2026 ICPC North America Championship! With this second-place win they advance to the 2026 ICPC World Finals this fall in Dubai! cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/waterlo...

AI-generated evidence is becoming harder to detect and courts aren't ready. Maura Grossman says judges are unarmed in the battle as deepfakes enter litigation. Through a new AI safety solution network, she's designing a framework to flag fabricated evidence www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/feature...

CS Prof Maura R. Grossman was on the “AI with Arun Show” to discuss how AI is transforming legal discovery, helping firms analyze massive volumes of documents faster and more accurately. She also explores the risks of AI, including bias, hallucinations and deepfakes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k33...

Strengthening the research partnership between @uwaterloo.ca and @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social: Professor Ana Crisan receives $250k from Princess Margaret Cancer Centre to develop MedDataOS, a human-centered AI system to integrate complex head and neck cancer data. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/ana-cri...

CS Prof Marina Meila has been named a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, recognizing her expertise in advancing the theoretical foundations of interpretable & explainable machine learning. In this Q&A, she talks about her research journey, current projects and future directions: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/marina-...

🎉 Happy (early) International Women’s Day! To celebrate, we are recognizing our phenomenal women researchers and entrepreneurs. ⭐ From groundbreaking discoveries to accelerating patient care, #UWaterloo Computer Science women shine! 🔗 Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/interna... #IWD #womeninstem

CS Professor Pascal Poupart and Professor Luis Ricardez-Sandoval from the Department of Chemical Engineering have received $480k in support from BMO and Mitacs to strengthen Canada’s supply of critical minerals by applying AI to the recycling of rare earth elements. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/pascal-...

#UWaterloo student, Luka Jovanovic built a website to track the speed of the #TTC streetcars. 🏁 Called the TTCLeaderboard, the app is set up like keeping score of a race, ranking the lines from fastest to slowest 🏁 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/news/mathema... #toronto

The Secret Math behind the Music: Position-Contents Duality and Symmetry : uwaterloo.ca/news/media/s... #WAICL #GroupTheory

What if DNA doesn’t record only ancestry but also carries an imprint of the environment in which an organism evolved? A new genomics study suggests precisely that, revealing compelling evidence of genetic convergence across the deepest divide in the tree of life: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/does-dn...

Professor Martin Karsten and former grad student Peter Cai (MMath ’23) uncovered a subtle but powerful way to make data centres more efficient. Their research found that a small modification to the Linux kernel could reduce energy consumption by as much as 30 per cent. uwaterloo.ca/news/global-...

In The Walrus, CS Research Prof Maura Grossman warns that genAI could erode trust in the courts, and that Canada’s justice system isn’t ready for a world where seeing and hearing no longer mean believing. “You could make a deepfake of my voice in two minutes,” she says. thewalrus.ca/when-evidenc...

Maclean's: Edith Law, Exec Director of the Future of Work Institute, explores a future where students learn by teaching AI agents. Her vision is to use AI to spark collaboration, reflection and curiosity in the classroom. AI's power isn't in shortcuts but deeper learning: macleans.ca/the-year-ahe...

Congrats to Valentio Iverson, Alice Moayyedi and Beihao Zhou, recipients of the Computing Research Association’s 2026 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards! They are among an outstanding group of research-focused undergrads from universities across N. America. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cherito...

🎉 Ring in the new year with #UWaterloo's Computer Science! 🤖 Throughout 2025, our faculty, students and alumni have pushed the boundaries of curiosity, from discovering cybersecurity risks to creating novel accessibility technology. 🔗 Check out our recap story at: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/recap-2...

In this Girl Power Q&A, Research Prof Maura R. Grossman reflects on a career spanning psychology, law and AI. A pioneer of technology-assisted review with Cheriton colleague Gordon V. Cormack, she now focuses on ethical AI and the threat genAI poses to the courts. girlpowertalk.com/people-we-ad...

The year is almost done. Best wishes for 2026.

🈴 #UWaterloo students showed how AI can unlock human learning at the Google-UWaterloo Symposium 📈 🔗 Read more about the students' projects and the #Google & UWaterlo collaboration at: uwaterloo.ca/news/mathema...

Recent master’s graduate Yelizaveta Brus, former postdoc Rungroj Maipradit, and Profs Earl T. Barr and Shane McIntosh have won an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ASE 2025. Their work examined a common and costly issue in modern software development. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/se-rese...

🏆 @uwaterloo.ca's Prof. Pascal Poupart and #CarletonUniversity's Prof. Sriram Ganapathi awarded Coefficient Giving grant to boost AI safety. ⚡With this funding, they aim to make agentic systems safer and more reliable — driving an AI-integrated future. 🔗 Read more at: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...

Congratulations to Prof Florian Kerschbaum on being named a 2026 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers! He has been recognized for his contributions to data security and privacy, influencing both academic research and industrial practice. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/florian...

✈️ Waterloo Blockchain flew to South America for #ETHGlobal Buenos Aires and came home with $25,850 USD 🏆 🔗 Read more about our students' hackathon win at cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/waterlo... #uwaterloo #laurier #blockchain

Muhammad Sulaiman, Mahdieh Ahmadi, Mohammad Salahuddin, Raouf Boutaba and Aladdin Saleh have won the 2025 CNOM Best Paper Award. Their research explores how to allocate resources to 5G network slices efficiently while guaranteeing quality of service. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/muhamma...

Craig S. Kaplan @isohedral.ca has been named a 2025 ACM Distinguished Member in recognition of his pioneering contributions to the design and modelling of computational geometric patterns and non-photorealistic rendering. Congrats on your 4th major accolade of 2025! cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/craig-s...

Aquanty Inc., a Waterloo-based water-modelling company co-founded by Distinguished Professor Emeritus Peter Forsyth, has been acquired by Rocscience. Founded in 2012, Aquanty grew out of years of collaborative research on surface and subsurface water modelling. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/aquanty...

CS Research Professor Maura R. Grossman featured on the Inference Show. She is a pioneer of technology-assisted review and Continuous Active Learning for eDiscovery, and more recently a prominent voice warning about the implications of deepfake evidence in courts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Syn...

Freda Shi and her UBC colleagues have won an Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2025. Their work introduces a new benchmark that evaluates how effectively large language models perform meta-linguistic reasoning — using LLMs to better understand languages themselves. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/freda-s...

Congratulations to CS Prof Ian Goldberg and his colleagues Aniket Kate and Greg Zaverucha on winning the 2025 Asiacrypt Test-of-Time Award. Their highly cited 2010 paper introduced constant-size polynomial commitment schemes central in the design of ZK proof systems. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/ian-gol...

⚖️ Professors Maura R. Grossman, Yuntian Deng, and Wenhu Chen join CIFAR's Solution Networks to tackle AI safety in the legal system and linguistic inequality 🗣️ 🔗 Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cs-prof... #uwaterloo

Al-generated evidence is increasingly appearing in court cases and judges say they are not ready. Research Professor Maura R. Grossman warns that generative Al has democratized fraud and courts must shift from "trust but verify" to "don't trust and verify." NBC News: www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Cameron Seth is breaking down the world’s hardest CS problem piece by piece. “What I’m doing is looking at a series of smaller problems related to the broader P vs. NP problem. Essentially, what I’m asking is if we can solve these other related problems,” Cam says. uwaterloo.ca/news/mathema...

Congrats to Professors Meng Xu and Sihang Liu, recipients of a $254k grant from National Cybersecurity Consortium to strengthen security of LLM agents. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/meng-xu...

The Cheriton School of Computer Science is recruiting! We invite applications for multiple positions in data management and data systems, as well as in other areas of CS — ML, robotics, computer vision, bioinformatics, and computer systems and architecture. cs.uwaterloo.ca/about/open-p...

Congrats to Waterloo Black, represented by Kevin Guo (4A CS), Kevin Yang (4A CS) and Kelly Dance (Master’s C&O). The trio finished second at the 2025 ICPC East Central North America contest. They will represent Waterloo at the ICPC North America Championship in 2026! cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/waterlo...

🦅 What if your gym routine consisted of gliding across a forest, skewing fruits like a ninja, or racing on a Formula 1 track? 🏁 🎮 That’s the vision behind Hiro. They're supporting children with disabilities by gamifying physiotherapy exercises. 🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/news/clinic-... #UWaterloo

Congrats to Prof Chengnian Sun and his collaborators Vu Le and Zhendong Su on winning the OOPSLA 2025 Most Influential Paper Award for their work on automated compiler testing. Their research introduced a new way to expose previously undetected bugs in compilers. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/chengni...

🎉 Congratulations to Datacurve, which was founded by former CS students Serena Ge and Charley Lee 🎉

Congrats to Postdoctoral Research Besat Kassaie, Dr. Andrew Kane and Distinguished Professor Emeritus Frank Tompa, winners of the Best Paper Award at DocEng’25. Their work combines LLMs for query reformulation with reciprocal rank fusion to improve mathematical IR. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/besat-k...